First page here
So I nearly forgot to post even though I was stuck home most of the day due to a dead battery. Go figure. No time for tons of words.
Anyway folks.
Until next time
Nick.
First page here.
So I like this page. I feel like it is the first page of good storytelling I've done so far. Nothing is perfect but I'm digging it.
I've recently been noticing that I've been randomly squishing webcomic time into my life and it is not working. I find that life and in particular my old habits of life are sneaking back up. And so I've realized I need to get more rigid about scheduling and tracking comic work time. So I'm changing my mindset. I am about to start treating this as a 20 hour a week unpaid part time job. I know this means not much to those who don't know me, but I think it may be helpful to someone trying to do what I'm doing with my webcomic if anyone ever reads it in the future and has similar ambitions.
Thats's it for now.
Nick.
The beginning lies... here.
So not that you need to know this but I'm writing this and prepping on Tuesdays and just final tweaks on Wednesdays a.k.a. post day. That's because I have chores scheduled on Wednesdays that have been neglected due to lack of prep. So Tuesday nights are post prep and more comicking.
I posted early last week because I forgot I was supposed to hold posting.
No extra pics this week. See ya.
Nick
First episode here
Next page. Still a bit behind on the buffer, but not too bad. Today was a scan day, scanned 8 pages of the webcomic and two sketches.
Here's a couple of sketches I did and the final piece I did for an office charity thing.
Later peeps,
Nick
First page HERE
So things have been going alright. I've been organizing time badly a bit so my buffer shrank, but I'm pressing forward and I'm going to try and rebuild the buffer.
I also feel that while I do want gray tones in my comics I need to learn to do a cartoon without using them as a crutch. So there is a batch coming up that will be without grays as I try to figure out inking purely.
Time pressures have made me feel that my progress has stalled. I need more time drawing but I haven't quite got the hang on getting to make it happen. Working on it.
I realized I've been getting hair breakage on my beautiful and expensive brush which hurts me deeply, so I'm going back to using a cheap brush until I learn how to use it properly.
And now to some art extras...
So this is one of the approaches to inking that feels good and I will incorporate over time. It's a Mike Mignola/Street Fighter Alpha hybrid approach. Yes he has too many abs/torso is too long. It's a sketch. The little head below that is not in that inking style, obviously.
Next is a vague poster/cover practice attempt. Little dude is Ramjit "Black Arcane" Tejani, one of the core 3rd Eye Society characters who won't appear until next story arc, probably. The big dude is a version of Mr. Antara a sinister character. Both will likely be redesigned some prior to appearing in the comic, but it was a fun sketch.
The last extra piece. Another cover/poster sketch attempt. That's the whole main cast without mentor characters. L to R: Simon "Zen Panda" Kozlov, Ram "Black Arcane" Tejani, Emma "Cyberian" Schmidt, Derek "Silent Seeker" Stockton, Riley "Doc Destructo" Schmidt, Chloe "Broken Wraith" Martinez, and Alexis "Red Dragon" Martinez.
Nick
